After Du Chengyue ascended the throne, he promulgated a number of laws to reduce land rent, improve farming, abolish various miscellaneous taxes, and severely punish officials for embezzlement and bribery.

This led to him being in power for less than a year, but he was already widely loved by the people.

Not only that, compared to the luxury of the previous emperors, he did not pay much attention to holding a mighty palace banquet and did not like beauty.

I heard that it was because of my weak body, and there was no concubine in the harem.

Despite this, the supreme power of the harem was still the noble daughters in the capital, and the ministers in the court frequently proposed to conduct a draft.

Many ministers wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the draft to send their daughters to the palace.

Xu Ling, the niece of Xu, had been trying to marry Du Chengyue before. In the past, Wu'an Hou would not agree, and even had several candidates for her.

At present, Wu'an Hou has also changed his mind.

Xu Ling was naturally happy and hurriedly shared the good news with Chen Yuan. However, with this sharing, the friendship between the two no longer existed.

Before they entered the palace talent show, the two had already broken up.

Because the Shen family also wanted Chen Yuan to go to the talent show, and because of the Queen Mother Chen, Chen Yuan has frequently entered the palace recently.

Empress Dowager Chen treated her like she did when she was.

Xu's tail was raised.

As for Chen Zhaoxi, who cares? Empress Dowager Chen and Shen Guang were unwilling to mention it, and were all thinking about how to marry her in a low-key manner, but who dared to marry her in Beijing? I was afraid that she would have something to do with Du Yi. .

Just as Shen Yuan entered the palace again, this time she was a permanent residence, Xu came to Chen Zhaoxi's courtyard and saw Chen Zhaoxi feeding parrots. She sat on the side again, and the maid next to her was fanning her.

Xu smiled and looked at Chen Zhaoxi: "Xi'er, Yuan'er is about to be in the forefront. You are not young anymore. It's time to find a marriage."

If Chen Zhaoxi doesn't marry, it will delay Chen Yuan.

Chen Guang originally didn't want to do it so terrible, but considering that his second daughter was in the palace, he might have hooked up with the emperor that day, so he turned a blind eye to Xu.

"My grandmother has not passed the three-year mourning period, why is her mother anxious?" Chen Zhaoxi smiled slightly and didn't smile.

Xu: "It's the second year now, and the days are over soon. I've already found someone to calculate it. My grandmother will understand this situation. I will set my days first and get married once the filial piety period is over."

Now, what is the filial piety period or not?

This has changed the emperor.

They almost took the wrong team last time, but now if they don’t please Du Chengyue, their future will be gone.

Chen Zhaoxi didn't say anything, and continued to feed the parrots leisurely.

Xu looked at her, suppressed her dissatisfaction, and continued to smile and said, "I have a distant nephew, a handsome man. I just passed the Jinshi last year and have a bright future. I will definitely be valued by the emperor in the future--"

"It sounds like a good match." Chen Zhaoxi responded casually.

"That's not true." Xu smiled even more.

Chen Zhaoxi: "Then you marry Chen Yuan to him quickly, and you may be the top scorer in the future."

Her words made Xu's smile suddenly calm down, and his words were slightly sunk: "Yuan'er has entered the palace now, so the Empress Dowager naturally has other arrangements for her."

Her daughter wanted to go to the palace to be a concubine. Maybe the new emperor even let her daughter become the queen out of respect for the queen mother.

At that time, what is Chen Zhaoxi?

"What are the arrangements?" Chen Zhaoxi was curious, "The emperor had no concubines in the backyard, and in the past there were no women in the backyard of Prince Qing's mansion."

"This is not what you worry about." Xu's face was stern.

"Then what's the use of telling me about this? You're so interesting." Chen Zhaoxi ignored her and walked into the house, not intending to pay attention to Xu.

Seeing that she was ungrateful, Xu sneered a few times and turned her head and left.

Chen Zhaoxi didn't expect that Xu actually let his distant nephew Xu Lin'an live in the prime minister's mansion. The other party looked gentle, tall, thin and honest.

But when I saw Chen Zhaoxi, my narrow eyebrows didn't look like a gentleman.

As expected, most likely, he was inspired by Xu, but he dared to come to the courtyard where Chen Zhaoxi was. Looking at her pretty and bright face, he felt itchy.

"I heard that Xi'er's cousin can play a good piano. I wonder if I can have the honor to listen to a song?" Xu Lin'an bowed, his words were gentle, and his eyes kept glancing at Chen Zhaoxi.

"Who allows you to come in?" Chen Zhao Xihan looked.

"Xi'er cousin, I--"

"Picking fragrance in early autumn, beat me!" Chen Zhaoxi gave the order, and the two maids took long brooms and hit Xu Lin'an directly.

Comparing ruthlessly one after another.

He was just a weak scholar, without any strength to fight back. He retreated in grief. When he wanted to escape, he fell and then suffered several blows.

It can be said that he ran away in a panic.

Chen Zhaoxi watched Xu Lin'an run away in a hurry. The next second, tears were stained with her eyes. She ran out while crying and came to Chen Guang.

It was one step earlier than Xu, who came to sue.

"As soon as he entered the door, he said something ridiculous, unrestrained and extremely arrogant, and even said that even if it were the Prime Minister's Mansion, what might happen if it weren't for the two maids protecting their daughter."

"Daughter wants to know, he no longer takes the Prime Minister's Mansion seriously, nor does he keep it in his father's eyes?"

"How can such a shameless person keep him in the mansion? Who gave him the courage?"

...

Chen Zhaoxi was tugging every word and sentence to the Prime Minister's Mansion and Shen Guang.

Chen Guang knew about Xu Lin'an, but Xu Lin'an was so arrogant that he was definitely not what he wanted to see, so he naturally thought of Xu.

Xu is about to climb onto his head.

"Prince, I--" Xu didn't know what happened. Seeing Chen Zhaoxi crying so hard that the pear blossoms were in the rain, she was stunned for a moment.

Could it be that Xu Linan really said something too much under her name?

This idiot!

"Someone is so rampant. This is what you do!" Chen Guang pointed at Xu, "Let him get out of me immediately!"

"Prince."

Chen Guang: "If you say something more, you can get out of here too!"

Xu looked at Chen Zhaoxi and stared at her. Chen Zhaoxi was still crying on the ground. Chen Guang pretended to comfort her for a few words and asked her to get up.

After going out.

Xu was so angry that he shivered. Chen Zhaoxi walked past her, and tears had long disappeared in her eyes. I wonder if Xu had heard it wrong, but Chen Zhaoxi seemed to sneer.

In this way, Xu suddenly couldn't breathe again.

Chen Zhaoxi, this little hoof!

The end of the year.

Du Chengyue held a banquet in the palace for the first time this year.

The noble ladies from each family have been preparing for it a few months ago, hoping to win the favor of the current emperor.

The minister asked Du Chengyue to choose a concubine many times, but he ignored it. In addition, there were many things in the court, so he took it out alone to arrange the affairs.

As time goes by, no one dares to show off.

Chen Yuan has already reached the head of the palace. This time the dance performed at the banquet was a Western Region dance that Queen Mother Chen asked someone to come to teach.

Unrestrained and charming.

Chen Zhaoxi entered the palace with Shen Guang and Xu.

Xu and Shen Zhaoxi went to the harem to see Empress Dowager Chen. Chen Yuan was standing beside Empress Dowager Shen, with a close look. Xu looked at Chen Zhaoxi provocatively.

Unfortunately, Chen Zhaoxi was not moved.

When Chen Zhaoxi bowed, Empress Dowager Chen just let her get up lightly. The past relationship was no longer remembered. Chen Zhaoxi's face was dull and she stepped aside.

Queen Mother Chen did not keep her. After asking An, she could leave Jinxiu Palace, while Chen Yuan and Xu stayed.

Zhang Qing'er came with Liu, and took Empress Dowager Chen's attitude in her eyes. She held Chen Zhaoxi with her, as if she wanted to comfort her, but she didn't know how to comfort her.

Zhang Qing'er felt that Chen Zhaoxi's life was miserable and she lost her mother in her early years. She finally got the queen mother's eye, and Du Yi failed to seize the throne, which led to Chen Zhaoxi becoming an abandoned son.

"You have never been accused of marrying the prince, and now you have been charged with various crimes, which is really unfair." Zhang Qing'er said angrily.

Chen Zhaoxi didn't care about this and took her to the garden to enjoy the flowers.

"If the emperor chooses a concubine, cousin, please go with me to be a show girl? After entering the palace, we can also have a companion." Zhang Qing'er said.

""Chen Zhaoxi suddenly raised her eyebrows, "You want to be a show girl?"

"Yes." After Zhang Qing'er said that, she came to her ear mysteriously and muttered several times.

Chen Zhaoxi's expression became unnatural when she heard this and quickly interrupted: "Not mentioning these, the emperor has not yet stated that he wants to choose a girl."

What was Zhang Qing'er thinking about? She actually said she wanted to go to the palace to be a salted fish, and she also said that since the emperor was inhumane, she would not have any pregnancy or sleeping. The sisters in the palace must have had a very happy time together, and no one has any children, so why? Come to persecute?

This palace must be better than those in those houses.

"Sooner or later, he will choose." Zhang Qing'er was not in a hurry. She held Chen Zhaoxi's hand, "Xu Ling is going to enter the palace, but she and Shen Yuan have a falling out. We join forces and live a comfortable life. .”

Everyone is sister, and it’s easy for someone to talk.

Chen Zhaoxi showed surprise and surprise on her face.

Seeing this, Zhang Qing'er kept persuading her: "My good cousin, why can't you figure it out? Instead of going to the house to be jealous and having to manage her concubines, we should live in the palace. Everyone is the same and have more lives. happy."

Chen Zhaoxi just wanted to be so happy, so she said: "People always have preferences-"

"It is said that the emperor is afraid of women." Zhang Qing'er giggled as she said it and leaned closer to her ears, "So she probably won't go into the harem. By that time, everyone will be the same."

Chen Zhaoxi: "Who said that?"
Chapter completed!